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cannabis_flower

(3,764 posts)
1. Neither
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 09:54 AM
Aug 2019

My cousin who abused me, nor a neighbor who raped me had been drinking and I hadn't been drinking either.

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
3. So much to say
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 10:04 AM
Aug 2019

but JFC it won't stutter out of my brain anymore.

If they have not learned any better by now it is by choice.

Joe Nation

(963 posts)
5. Rape is the product one person making the choice to take another person's choice away.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 11:29 AM
Aug 2019

You can blame all of the external factors you want, it still comes down to the choices you make and don't make.

Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

ZZenith

(4,123 posts)
7. It's possible that in my lifetime I have drunk more alcohol than your entire family combined.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:25 AM
Aug 2019

And yet, I have never raped anyone.

He is being an ass, trying to appear compassionate while placing the onus on an inanimate substance.

oldsoftie

(12,555 posts)
8. So you'd have the same opinion of a gun then, right? "inanimate object'?
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:53 AM
Aug 2019

Its not the gun, its the MAN, after all, who does the shooting.
He's not saying alcohol is what the MEN are using, he's saying that excessive drinking can make some people make bad decisions and put themselves in bad situations where they are more able to be preyed upon BY the man who may rape them.
Parents constantly tell their daughters to "pay attention" "watch out for each other", etc. Its ALL valid.

JI7

(89,252 posts)
9. fuck him, he also says in another post that women should arm themselves with a gun or get mace
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:05 AM
Aug 2019

his focus is all on the actions of the women .

and he fucking said alcohol causes rape.

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
11. "women shouldn't drink", "women shouldn't wear short skirts"
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:15 AM
Aug 2019

"women shouldn't go out alone"
"women shouldn't...."
"women should use the buddy system"
"women should keep an eye on their drink"
"women should carry mace"

HOW ABOUT:

GUYS. SHOULDN'T. RAPE.

This is NOT a "woman" problem. This is a RAPIST problem. And RAPISTS are usually MALE. This prick needs to talk to his male friends, NOT women or girls. THEY are not the problem. They're just the ones getting BLAMED for the problem. And unfortunately, THAT is what it means to be a woman or girl in this World - YOU get blamed or punished for it ALL, even when YOU are not the perp/cause (even wars, none of which were ever started by any female anywhere). Evidently, that is what some of the male of the species believe is our purpose, besides being sex slaves and incubators.

BULL SHIT on that. Not acceptable. Not accepting it. It's immoral. It's inhumane (female humans ARE human) and it's ignorant.

There is N O T H I N G a male can teach females about NOT getting raped. What males can do is SHUT. UP. to females, and talk to their male friends about NOT. RAPING. FEMALES.

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